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Thomas
Thomas

Reputation: 79

PHP Email Form More Fields

So I have an email form using PHP: 

<form method="post" action="contactus.php" autocomplete="off">
            <label for="Name">Name:</label>
            <input type="text" name="Name" id="Name" maxlength="60" required/>

            <label for="email">Email:</label>
            <input type="text" name="email" id="email" maxlength="120" required/>

            <label for="message">Message:</label><br />
            <textarea name="message" rows="20" cols="20" id="message" required></textarea>

            <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" class="submit-button" />
        </form>

And the PHP to send to my email:

<?php

if($_POST["submit"]) {

// The message
$message=$_POST["message"];

$email=$_POST["email"];

// In case any of our lines are larger than 70 characters, we should use wordwrap()
$message = wordwrap($message, 70, "\r\n");

// Send
mail('myemail.com', 'Quick Pass', $message, $email);
}
?>

But the problem is only 'myemail.com' (which is my email address), 'Quick Pass' (the email subject) and $message (the email message). $email isn't being sent.

I have tried:

<?php
$to = "myemail.com";
$subject = "Quick Pass";
$message=$_POST["message"];
$email=$_POST["email"];

mail($to,$subject,$message,$email);
?>

With this I am receiving four emails (two with $message and two with $email).

The problem is I need all of this in one email. So the $message is sent along with $email somewhere in the email.

Any ideas? (hopefully using my form)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 73

Answers (3)

james-geldart
james-geldart

Reputation: 749

As previous posters have said, the fourth parameter id for for headers so it should be "From: {$email}" or similar.

However, mail servers are sometimes configured to ignore From headers and set a default value. Also you could find that the message is being ignored somewhere along the email route (by your host's own relay server or by your email provider's incoming mail server) if the sending address doesn't match any DNS MX records for the domain in question. You will need to talk to your hosting provider(s) to investigate this.

Upvotes: 0

Hasan Tareque
Hasan Tareque

Reputation: 1741

Make sure you getting your form input correctly. then try this.

// recipients
$to = '[email protected]'; //your email address
$user_email = $_POST["email"]; //input from form
// subject
$subject = 'Subject';
// message
$message = $_POST["message"];
// set conent type
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: User Email <'.$user_email.'>' . "\r\n";
// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

Upvotes: 0

Professor Abronsius
Professor Abronsius

Reputation: 33813

There is an example, direct from the php manual, which looks as follows:-

$to      = '[email protected]';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

The fourth parameter is NOT simply an email address - it is a header:value type arrangement with multiple headers separated using \r\n

In your code perhaps you could try:-

if($_POST["submit"]) {

    // The message
    $message=$_POST["message"];

    $email=$_POST["email"];

    $headers='From: '.$email."\r\n".
        'Reply-To: '.$email;

    // In case any of our lines are larger than 70 characters, we should use wordwrap()
    $message = wordwrap($message, 70, "\r\n");

    // Send
    mail('[email protected]', 'Quick Pass', $message, $headers );
}

Upvotes: 1

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